Wipe data from CX3-10

Hello everyone, I was looking for information on how to zero out the disks on my CLARiiON CX3-10 that is coming off a lease. I did some searching and a lot of people mentioned the primus article emc130392 but It doesn't show up when I search for it and when I try grab the URL of another primus article and replace the article # i'm told i don't have access to the article. Can anyone give me instructions on how to do a zero-out write to a CX3-10?

Re: Wipe data from CX3-10

you could shuffle drives around and then create new RAID Groups/LUNs. When you create new LUNs on Clariion, they get automatically zero-out in the background. If you don't have any financial/medical regulations that apply to your data ..this might be a quick and dirty way to get it wiped.

Re: Wipe data from CX3-10

did you skip over the sentence in my reply that mentioned "regulations" ? It's not only HIPAA ..you have SOX, DOD and a lot of other fun regulations that require certified data destruction. We took our old CX boxes that did not require certified erasure and not were going back to EMC ..and simply shreded the drives.

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Re: Wipe data from CX3-10

We're not bound by any HIPAA or SOX regulations so a simple zero out would be fine for us. And I cant shred the drives since this CX3-10 is on a lease and needs to go back to the leasing company. I still have around 3 weeks before I need to package it up so I'll try conecting it to one of my ESXi hosts and do a wipe on LUN containing all the disks. Worse case I'll do the shuffle method a few times over!